{"id":4239,"date":"2009-07-21T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spynotebook.org\/chip\/?p=4239"},"modified":"2009-07-21T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T16:35:00","slug":"time-to-make-the-bagels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/2009\/07\/21\/time-to-make-the-bagels\/","title":{"rendered":"Time To Make The Bagels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember a long time ago when some of us were in college and we were downtown and there was a sign up about some bagel store opening? I think it was near where Amici’s is now. That was the time that I was looking for a job and we saw a sign for “BAGEL MAKER WANTED” and the hours were something like 3AM-7AM every morning.<\/p>\n

I thought it sounded like the best job ever, but then I remembered that I didn’t know how to make bagels and that I really probably didn’t want to get up that early and actually go anywhere.<\/p>\n

Well, I still don’t want to get up that early, but I can add BAGEL MAKER to my growing list of accomplishments.<\/p>\n

I got inspired this weekend when I was complaining on twitter<\/a> about the lack of good bagels in Athens since Zim’s closed. One of my twitter friends, @bethoshea<\/a>, posted that she tried making her own bagels and it was super easy. She sent me this link<\/a> and I thought I would give it a shot.<\/p>\n

You basically mix up 4 cups bread flour, 1 Tbls sugar, 1 1\/2 tsps salt, 1 Tbls vegetable oil, 2 tsps instant yeast, and 1-1\/2 cups of warm water and knead it for 10 minutes.<\/p>\n

\"Kneading\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This gives you a giant ball of bagel which you then make into 8 smaller bagel balls.<\/p>\n

\"Bagel<\/a> \"Bagels<\/a><\/p>\n

Let these sit and mutate and grow for a while. I let them go for about 15-20 minutes before I started trying to make them bagel shaped.<\/p>\n

I didn’t really get the next part down during my first bagel making experience. You are supposed to roll them out like a snake, then wrap it around your hand and knead it back into a bagel\/donut shape.<\/p>\n

I had limited success but for the most part, it was OK.<\/p>\n

\"Roll\"<\/a> \"Trying<\/a> \"Bagels<\/a><\/p>\n

Scrappy asked why I couldn’t just poke a hole in the middle. I think I might test that next time on a few and see how it works.<\/p>\n

Then, comes the part that everyone associates with it being a REAL bagel. The boiling.<\/p>\n

Let the bagels sit for another 20 minutes and start boiling the water and pre-heating the oven to 425.<\/p>\n

Then drop them in and let them go for about 2 minutes.<\/p>\n

\"Boiling\"<\/a> \"Boiled<\/a><\/p>\n

This is the point that I was fairly embarrassed about the look of my bagels. But, hey, they taste the same no matter how they look, right?<\/p>\n

Then it is in the oven for 10 minutes, flip them, 10 more minutes.<\/p>\n

\"In<\/a><\/p>\n

If everything goes well (which it did), you should have shiny fresh bagels at the end.<\/p>\n

\"On<\/a><\/p>\n

I am going to attempt an everything bagel next time. And then will come the clouds and bunny cheerleader tables and the closing of Zim’s might hurt a little less.<\/p>\n

\"Zim's<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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